The drink driving laws are a form of tyranny

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hell, right here in my city there's a city counsel member who continues to drive around town despite having a suspended license. why does she have one? she's been involved in two hit-and-runs when she left the casinos drunk off her ass. how is she allowed to drive, let alone be allowed to serve on the counsel? who knows.
 
HyperU2 said:
We had two recent DUI crashes around here from folks who didn't have a license. I don't know how they manage to get back behind the wheel. I guess criminals don't care about laws.
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When I said off the streets, I meant in prison.

Heard on the radio this morning that he got life. :up:
 
elevated_u2_fan said:
could someone please change the title of this thread to "The drunk driving laws are a form of tyranny"? my OCD can't take it any longer :(

thank you
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Drink driving is the correct term, although I am aware that Americans use the gramatically incorrect expression 'drunk driving'. You may, if you are unwise, drive drunk, but you do not drunk drive. Have you ever heard anyone refer to sober cycling?

(thank you)
 
Drunk Driving is a serious offence and should be punished as such. it is a proven fact that when you are drunk your reaction time slows down. you are a hazard to everyone when you get behind the wheel drunk. so many people have needlessly died because some idiot drove drunk.

i have no respect for people who drive drunk because they are needlessly putting everyone at risk.
 
financeguy said:
Drink driving is the correct term, although I am aware that Americans use the gramatically incorrect expression 'drunk driving'. You may, if you are unwise, drive drunk, but you do not drunk drive. Have you ever heard anyone refer to sober cycling?

(thank you)
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hold on here, are you telling me when someone has had too much to drink you call them drink?
 
financeguy said:
Drink driving is the correct term, although I am aware that Americans use the gramatically incorrect expression 'drunk driving'. You may, if you are unwise, drive drunk, but you do not drunk drive. Have you ever heard anyone refer to sober cycling?

(thank you)
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no, you are incorrect. "driving while drunk" = "drunk driving." you could have drunk poker, drunk softball, drunk charades, etc.
 
financeguy said:
Drink driving is the correct term, although I am aware that Americans use the gramatically incorrect expression 'drunk driving'. You may, if you are unwise, drive drunk, but you do not drunk drive. Have you ever heard anyone refer to sober cycling?

(thank you)
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:scratch:

Someone might be drink right now...
 
Irvine511 said:
no, you are incorrect. "driving while drunk" = "drunk driving."
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No, it's shorthand. The correct expression for what you are referring to would be "drunk whilst driving" or "drunk whilst in charge of an automobile". Like enumerating points in an argument and starting off with "first, blah blah blah" instead of "firstly, etc".


Irvine511 said:
you could have drunk poker, drunk softball, drunk charades, etc.
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Maybe in America. "Drunk" describes the state of being incapable owing to excessive consumption of alchohol. An inanimate object or a sports game is not capable of being in this condition. What you mean surely is "playing poker while drunk".
 
Listen, all I know is in the UK it is referred to as drink driving. And they invented the language.
 
Well, it's a creeping thing.

These days, everyone even in the home counties pronounces words like 'division' as 'divishun'. The correct RP is div-is-ee-on. Four syllables.
 
financeguy said:
Well, it's a creeping thing.

These days, everyone even in the home counties pronounces words like 'division' as 'divishun'. The correct RP is div-is-ee-on. Four syllables.
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I said "Jag-you-are" in a meeting the other day and nobody would stop laughing. I kept saying "But that's how it's really pronounced" but nobody could really hear me over the din provided by the guffawing.
 
No spoken words said:
I said "Jag-you-are" in a meeting the other day and nobody would stop laughing. I kept saying "But that's how it's really pronounced" but nobody could really hear me over the din provided by the guffawing.
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You're precisely correct on the pronunciation. I fail to understand why this would elicit such merriment however. Is there a part of this story you're not telling? Was 'jag-you-are' the punchline at the end of a witty anecdote or something of that nature?
 
financeguy said:
You're precisely correct on the pronunciation. I fail to understand why this would elicit such merriment however. Is there a part of this story you're not telling? Was 'jag-you-are' the punchline at the end of a witty anecdote or something of that nature?
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I left out the part about my coworkers being dolts, sorry.
 
financeguy said:
You're precisely correct on the pronunciation. I fail to understand why this would elicit such merriment however. Is there a part of this story you're not telling? Was 'jag-you-are' the punchline at the end of a witty anecdote or something of that nature?
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he was probably bragging that he could buy a jaguar for every day of the week. douchebag. :rolleyes:
 
elevated_u2_fan said:
perhaps he was threatening to feed them to his "jag-you-are"...


Also, my question was not answered, if you encounter someone who is intoxicated do you say:

"wow, that guy is really drink" or "wow, that guy is really drunk"?
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To be drunk is not the same as driving under the influence of alcohol. The one describes the state of that person, being drunk, so it's an adjective, in the other it's the description of the verb, driving, i.e. used as an adverb, drink/drunk driving.
You can see here that British and American English apparently differ: drink driving : W�rterbuch / Dictionary (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)
 
financeguy is right, you stinking, rotten seppos! it's drink driving. i don't know why americans argue with british people on the english language. it's the shit, hill and one-straw broom analogy. nsw is also right with jag-you-are. god, it kills a part of me when i hear, 'jag-warre'.

and now i must decontaminate myself after having written in the one post that both nsw and financeguy are correct.
:sad:
 
Angela Harlem said:
financeguy is right, you stinking, rotten seppos! it's drink driving. i don't know why americans argue with british people on the english language. it's the shit, hill and one-straw broom analogy. nsw is also right with jag-you-are. god, it kills a part of me when i hear, 'jag-warre'.

and now i must decontaminate myself after having written in the one post that both nsw and financeguy are correct.
:sad:
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this from a nation that abbreviates everything?
 
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